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In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic…

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Thoughts and advice on the creative writing process from an international master of literature. Words have power. Yet that…

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The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the…

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Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports and government documents, as well as hundreds of interviews, Farrell…

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In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers…

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